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Patented May 9, |899.

J. MUSSETTE.v

AGETYLENE GAS GENERATOR.

(Application led Oct. D4, 1898.)

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OLIVER J. MOUSSETTE, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

ACETYLEN E-GAS G EN ERATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 624,846, dated May 9,1899.

Application filed October 24, 1898.

`Queens and State of New York, have invented .new and usefulImprovements in Acetylene- Gas Generators, of which the following is aspecification.

By means of this invention a generator is obtained which is simple inconstruction and reliable in operation, as set forth in the followingspeciiication and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, inwhich-- Y Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the generator. Fig. 2 isa sectional plan View of Fig. 1.

In the drawings is shown a fixed or ringshaped bottom portion 1, towhich is secured or screwed a removable bottom 2, which is shown with ahandle 3. The bottom- 1 carries two shells or walls 4 and 5,which form aliquid or water seal when the space between these walls is supplied withliquid, as water, or preferably oil, as the latter does not freeze andis thus seviceable if the generator should be exposed.

The gasometer is shown with itstop or roof at 6 and its side 7 dipping'into the seal 4 5, such gasometer rising and falling as it lls orempties. The material or carbid can be stored in holder 8, mounteddirectly on the gasometer, so as to rise and fall therewith.

` An outlet 9is secured .directly to holder 8 and portion or end toallow the liquid in the reservoir free passage under or through suchstandard. As the gasometer exhausts and sinks with the holder 8 the arm14 contacts with standard 15 to open door or valve 11 and allow materialto drop from the holder into the reservoir, whereupon a fresh charge ofgas is generated, which causes the gasometer to rise and free arm 14from contact with standard 15. The door then closes to shut off furtherdischarge from hopper until the gasometer again exhausts and sinks.

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The gas-pipe 16 enters the gasometer outside or clear of reservoir 10and can feed from the gasometer and is shown with branches 17 and 18,which latter can be shut oft by valve 19 and is generally not used incase the generator is transportable or not xed in position. The pipe 17is shown rising along the outside of shell 4 andV of its superstructure20, which is shown as a continuation of and can be closed like shell 4,but is preferably broken or open to give access to holder 8 or its cover21.

The superstructure 2O is shown with rim or top 22, the pipe 17 leadinginto a chamber l or channel 23 in such top. When the cap 24 is screwedor placed onthetop 22 and its pipe 25 communicates with passage 23, thegas passes through pipe 25 to nipple 26, adapted for applying a burneror utilizing the gas. The reservoir 10 can be cleaned or provided withliquid by unscrewing the bottom 2, carrying this reservoir. The removalof bottom 2 can be avoided by means of pipe 27, leading intoreservoir 10and branching to a lilling and safety tube 28 and to a dischargeorcleaning tube 29,which can be Vclosed by valve 30. The filler 28 is ofsuch height that the reservoir 10 can be filled'V therethrough to properleVeL-butrnot to'overiiow. This filler 28 also acts as a safety-tube,since if excessive pressure occurs in the gasometer such pressure actingon the liquid in reservoir 10 will cause a rise of liquid through thetube 28, while gas in the gasometer is prevented from escaping throughtube 28 by the liquid in the latter. The tube 2728 29 can be secured tobottom 2 to accompany reservoir 10, and the branches 2S 29 being outsideshell 4 are readily accessible.

The generator 2O is shown with side lugs 31 l to enable the device to beset into a hollowV IOO move With the gasometer, a door or outletprovided With an arm, a reservoir in the gasolneter under the holder,and a tubular standard secured in the reservoir adapted to be engaged bythe arm to open the door and having itslower part broken or open tocoinmunicate With the reservoir substantially as described.

2. A gas-gen erator comprising a gasometer, a holder for carbid carriedby the gasonieter, a door actuated by the holder, a reservoir, a sealfor the gasometer, a cleaning-tube leading into the lower part of thereservoir and provided With a valve and a filler and safety tubebranched upon said cleaning-tube and extending along the outside of theseal substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

OLIVER J MOUSSETTE.

Witnesses:

W. C. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

